Butt plug? Or she is a trans woman and this is an example of subverted expectations in that the Boomer TSA guy we expect to have a bigoted response and doesn't. Instead he carries on allowing the woman to feel seen.
This is correct for, she has grs comics and other various trans content. But I felt this one personally as I had this exact situation play out with a very different outcome.
Tldr: I was fem dressing b u t male presenting wich lead to confusion at the time. Tsa scanned, decided to search, got incredibly embarrassed by their .mistake and I went about my trip.
Yeah. So thats the funny part! A male was going to search, then went over to his female coworker and had her do the search. She comes up and like looks at me, walks back to the male coworker and I guess said she was uncomfortable with doing the search so he asked me "does it matter who does the search?" And at this point its been like 20 mins and I just went "Dude I dont care, your not gunna find anything thats not supposed to be there, I just wanna go on VACATION!"
There was an article I read that went pretty similarly. They took her to a separate room, but none of the female agents wanted to search a trans woman, so instead she had to strip down in front of 3 male agents, bend and spread.
Female TSA agents should not be allowed to flat out reject a search, unless it's obviously inappropriate. Imagine you're a cis tomboy and you get groped by a man. It's pure fucking nightmare fuel.
These machines have a male/female preset. If the TSA agent sets it to female and you have a dick, it'll flag it as an object (it'll also often flag tampons and piercings).
I think the joke is that the agent took some time to actually figure out that it was a penis, not a stick of dynamite or something.
To be fair the people working at TSA probably do not give a fuck and see stuff way weirder than phenotype not matching genotype. Butt plugs, metal underwear, padlocks, hamsters, 40 pairs of reading glasses in pants and so on!
These TSA agents have probably seen it all and then some. I doubt any of then are actually going to acknowledge you as a person, let alone try and make a scene over it.
Yeah... the notoriously professional and capable TSA... totally not a conglomeration of people who couldn't make it to Mall Cop and need to vent that frustration somewhere.
So the joke is “Lady, I don’t mind if you are trans, it’s just that a penis and a gun are shaped slightly similar, so just gotta make sure. Have a nice day ma’am”
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u/grigiri 29d ago edited 29d ago
Butt plug? Or she is a trans woman and this is an example of subverted expectations in that the Boomer TSA guy we expect to have a bigoted response and doesn't. Instead he carries on allowing the woman to feel seen.